Suzy Walker Editor-in-Chief, with Oscar the office dog
This month, we explore uncertainty. Can we increase our tolerance of it, and even make friends with it? Could we use instability to transform our lives? Anita Chaudhuri asks these questions in our Dossier on page 64. ‘Nothing goes away until it has taught us what we need to know,’ says wise woman Pema Chödrön (page 36). What can uncertainty teach you?
Building a steadfast inner foundation can only help. Why not try ecotherapy? On page 24, Alice Wright discovers that 90 per cent of people feel a higher level of self-esteem simply by taking a walk through a country park. Inspiring reader Suzanne O’Leary makes a big leap and starts her own business in our ‘My life, my way’ feature. ‘You have to believe in what you do and let yourself make mistakes,’ she says on page 28. And, as the ‘Mother of Dragons’, Emilia Clarke, leaves cult series Game Of Thrones, she explains why self-confidence and self-belief are crucial for women.